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Ranch purchase planned to improve flood control
By Hudson Sangree - hsangree@sacbee.com
Published 12:00 am PST Friday, January 25, 2008
Story appeared in METRO section, Page B3
Groups in Sacramento and Yolo counties plan to buy a 2,600-acre ranch along the Sacramento River to ensure it remains undeveloped and to provide additional flood protection.
Knaggs Ranch is on the Yolo County side of the river, across from Sacramento International Airport and the Natomas basin. A third of the property is in the Yolo Bypass; the rest is in the Elkhorn basin, north of Interstate 5.
Aimee Rutledge, director of the nonprofit Sacramento Valley Conservancy, a group dedicated to preserving open space, said her organization and the Yolo Land Trust plan to buy the property.
The purchase price: $14.5 million.
The Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency on Jan. 17 moved toward paying $3 million to acquire agricultural conservation easements on 1,771 acres of the property.
The easements would prevent development, allowing the land to be flooded when needed.
"If worst came to worst, it would be available for overflow," said Sacramento County Supervisor Roger Dickinson, a member of the SAFCA board of directors.
It is the first time the flood-control agency has reached beyond its borders under legislation signed last year by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
AB 930 by Assemblyman Dave Jones, D-Sacramento, enabled SAFCA to purchase easements outside its boundaries in the Sacramento Valley.
The Yolo County Board of Supervisors passed a resolution in December supporting the Knaggs Ranch purchase.
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